Clairey Clairey Quite Contrary, How does your garden grow?

I know that incessant rain is typical for the Pacific Northwest, nonetheless I find myself in a bit of a funk these days with all the gray skies.  Our vegetable garden and I do not see eye to eye on this.  The veggies are loving the *drizzly weather we have been having!  The lettuce mixes, peas, and strawberries have exploded since the day we first brought them home.  In fact we've lost only one of the plants that we purchased at the early Spring Seattle Tilth Edible Plant Sale.

Seeing our plants grow during these past two months has been so exciting.  The best part is that we are finally getting to see some of them on our dining table!  The flavor is unbelieveably better than anything that can be purchased at the grocery store.  To that end we hit up the second Seattle Tilth Edible Plant Sale this weekend and our garden will be expanding.  Here is a list of the newest plants that will be finding a home in our garden over the next few weeks:

List of Plants:
Artichoke
Globe

Tomatoes
Peacevine Cherry
Odessa
Russian Anna
Sweet Millions
Anaras Noire
Flamme

Herbs
Chives
"Curry" plant (smells just like curry though does not taste like it)
Cinnamon Basil
Winter Savory

Edible Flowers
Nasturtium-Whirlbird
Floral Lace Pearl

Pumpkins
Howden

Squash
Table Queen Acorn
Black Zucchini

Onions
Italian Blood Red
Borrettana Cipollini

Cucumber
Marketmore 76

Hops
Tettnager

Berries
Blueberry

Mint
Spearamint

Here's hoping they turn out as well as the others...

Sweet Peas on the Bamboo Trellis built by "moi"

(Left to Right) Garlic, Kale, Broccoli, Eggplant, Chard

(Left to Right) Strawberries, LOTS of Lettuce, Arugula,

Raddichio, Parsley, Basil, & Dwarf Peas

* I should also give a shout out to City People's Garden Store because our soil is a huge part of the equation. Our soil was perfectly formulated with the help of a knowledgeable employee who calculated the exact ratio of compost, to topsoil, to sand for our raised bed.